When you have such a high turnover rate in players as we've had over the last decade or so, there are bound to be players who go on to look brilliant elsewhere. If you'd asked me at the time I would have thought Andy Reid (with the caveat that he's always injured) and Frazer Richardson would go on to have really good careers after us, and neither have done much since.

I never particularly rated Leon Clarke. We let him go when we were in the Championship, and I personally thought he was a mid-table League One player. Credit to him for doing it for a couple years on the bounce in League One then making the step up.

Clarke was never moody about being with us, was just a shame one of many Charlton managers wasn't willing to persist with him.

Is it a shame though? We were in the Championship and there wasn't anything until this year to really indicate that he was of Championship quality. Sometimes players just go on to do good things after they leave you.

Clarke was never moody about being with us, was just a shame one of many Charlton managers wasn't willing to persist with him.

Is it a shame though? We were in the Championship and there wasn't anything until this year to really indicate that he was of Championship quality we completely fucked up our player recruitment. Sometimes players just go on to do good things after they leave you Charlton.

Leon Clarke wanted out for a long time. He wasn’t very good for us and didn’t really offer us anything at the time. I remember watching him in a behind closed doors friendly against a Spanish team of trialist, okay it was a friendly but he put in the most pathetic performance I’ve ever seen, he just didn’t move. That day we had Fox, Ajayi, Poyet etc all playing. So to say he wasn’t moody is exactly not true. You can ask Chris Powell and Paul Hart and they’ll say the same.

Clarke had a major bust-up with the Swindon manager, Paolo di Canio, and Powell acquired him for the 2012-13 season. Played only seven games, without scoring, yet scored 11 in 15 games on loan at Scunny. The following season Clarke scored an impressive 23 goals in 34 games for Coventry.